Amid these rising pressures, many ordinary citizens continue to push back. Their message is clear: invest in people, not war.

Japan has warned of a 70–80% chance of a magnitude 8–9 earthquake along the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years, which ...

What began as a fringe movement is now gaining traction, driven by voter dissatisfaction with mainstream political parties ...

In Japan, swarms of earthquakes are fueling a dip in tourism and a viral panic over predictions of the next 'big one' ...

The man identified as 27-year-old Yuki Murai worked in a Tokyo office where a new administrative assistant joined the company ...

A popular Japanese pop group hired to be the poster boy of disaster-hit Fukushima has announced it is disbanding following the latest scandal to hit the country's embattled entertainment sector.

Fuji Media Holdings Inc., which has been rocked by the sexual assault scandal involving former TV personality Masahiro Nakai, has received shareholder approval for its new management structure.

A popular Japanese pop group hired to be the poster boy of disaster-hit Fukushima has announced it is disbanding following ...

A lawyer for former popular television personality Masahiro Nakai has refuted a third-party committee's report that found Nakai committed "sexual violence" against a former Fuji TV announcer.

Nakai's lawyers say that while he participated in a roughly six-hour hearing with the committee on March 9, the investigation report reflected little of what he had said.

A Japanese magazine reported in December 2024 that the 52-year-old had performed a sexual act without a woman’s consent. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

It all started with an “incident” involving a woman in her twenties and Nakai Masahiro, former member of boy band SMAP (which disbanded in 2016). While Fuji TV’s Chairman Kanō Shūji and ...